Crossover between standard and inverse spin-valve effect in atomically thin superconductor/half-metal structures
arXiv:1909.00479 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.064519
Abstract
Spin-singlet Cooper pairs consisting of two electrons with opposite spins cannot directly penetrate from a superconductor to a half-metal (fully spin polarized ferromagnets) which blocks the superconducting proximity effect between these materials. In this paper we demonstrate that, nevertheless, two half-metallic layers electrically coupled to the superconducting film substantially affect its critical temperature and produce the spin valve effect. Within the tight-binding model for the atomically thin multilayered spin valves we show that depending on the details of the electron energy spectra in half-metals the critical temperature as a function of the angle between the spin quantization axes in half-metals can be either monotonically increasing or decreasing. This finding highlights the crucial role of the band structure details in the proximity effect with half-metals which cannot be adequately treated in the quasiclassical theories.
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